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20 MARCH

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19 MARCH

Text to Speech
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Language: US English
Voice: George
Speed: Medium / Fast

All 10 FAST recorded instructions = 84KB
All 10 MEDIUM recorded instructions = 88KB

18 MARCH

Swing dance evolution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_(dance)

Music for Jive
Mix of jazz, swing and rock 'n' roll
approximately 160 - 180 BPM

Playlists
Jive by Karina Dukalska
https://embed.spotify.com/?uri=spotify%3Auser%3A1128072303%3Aplaylist%3A4fN3xPkuqmOjFaKSiMSkEd

40s 50s Rock 'n' Roll by David Patiño
https://embed.spotify.com/?uri=spotify%3Auser%3A12157046444%3Aplaylist%3A2XDA2aWNqzYjqas7hQhTmP

Jive by fernando.gy97
https://embed.spotify.com/?uri=spotify%3Auser%3Afernando.gy97%3Aplaylist%3A7Jnq7vkzbgHXxzeD49IOTe

SWING - BIG BAND by Pol Cayuela
https://embed.spotify.com/?uri=spotify%3Auser%3Akenshiro_o%3Aplaylist%3A1A51AEZEh5Gm8KVPLqhyzK

3 contacts give only 7 options

6 contacts give more than 12 options. Contact 1 and 2 would have a different function, so they should be kept separate not to confuse the users.

16 MARCH

Inputs

tempo / speed
steps 1-10
hands / no hands

Anna tested the instructions on us. She made her own random order (first by listing numbers, then correlating them to step names). Very quickly she got the hang of it and did very well in giving the next instruction in time, without being too early. With time, we experimented with her breaking our flow on purpose: instructions at bad timing; difficult combinations of steps; dancing with no hands for a long time. How will my partner and I communicate to continue our flow?

Points that came out of practice session

should we show the full dance in order? - yes.
is it clear that double steps (American spin, Bump, Stop & Go) are meant to be double? - no.
do we stick to strict 2 axes - vertical and horizontal direction? - no.
could we dance to midi? - no. the feel/vibe/style changes completely.
what will we dance to?
how will we communicate to stop because instructions were given too early? - squeeze hand of partner
is dancing with/without hands possible? - yes.

Performance details

dance double steps (American spin, Bump, Stop & Go) only once
dance full routine in 'correct' order once at the start
if an instruction is given too early, current step will be finished, but new one will not begin
standard (1-2 steps backwards) at the start of every move
1 or 2 royalty free songs on floppy
for performance choose other music, songs that people will recognise
dress up a little: flats or heels?

Royalty Free Music
http://freemusicarchive.org/genre/Jazz/?sort=track_date_published&d=1&page=1

15 MARCH

Looking for anyone who passed away earlier than February 1947

Dean Martin - 1995
Frank Sinatra - 1998
Ray Charles - 2004
Louis Armstrong - 1971
Billie Holiday - 1959
Ella Fitzgerald - 1996
Nina Simone - 2003
Glenn Miller - 1944
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CI-0E_jses

13 MARCH

new changes

no screen - find new way to view queued instructions and choreology
no direct usb connection to use keyboard. need dongle

Changes / to-do:

Replacing keyboard with cobbler connected to a breadboard
Design and write out what is the function/outcome of each of the 6 inputs
Find royalty free music - possibly midi?

Hall & Oates midi
http://www.singingstation.com/midi-files/hall-oates/you-make-my-dreams

Finally found it - was trying to find it in my archive for weeks. ‘DIMI’ & Helsinki Electronic Music Studio, Erkki Kurenniemi
https://120years.net/dimi-helsinki-electronic-music-studioerkki-kurenniemifinland1961-2/

10 MARCH

What still needs to be done

simple website with documentation and extra content (movies, imagery)
choreology for each of 9 steps
see how long each step takes (8-16 beats)
converting project to code

Doable steps:

List all moves from a dance (in official terminology) and give them a correlating number.
Create code that interprets numbers into terminology
Create terminology / instructions as markup text
Convert markup text into audio

Further steps:
Commands will be said only every 8 beats in the song.

Is there a way to queue commands / terminology?
How to have the spoken instructions told through the speakers at the right moment?

Music will take up too much space on the floppy, so that might need to be external.

How to sync the speed of the song to the spoken instructions intervals? BPM calculator (different songs = different BPM)
How to communicate BPM to queue tempo?

Can the Pi read any language?
Does it have an operating system (which one), or is it just a shell?
Are there any limitations to any language I could be using?
Is making a web interface using Java Script and then connecting the Pi to a screen possible?

printing the choreology?

Music alternatives
Swing / Jive midi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0ZOo2DMack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6XACt1s-z0

Other dances
Foxtrot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW3w8kV-Xmo
Quickstep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stsBqdo9Svc
Samba https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY20ixaf2PM
Waltz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCKU5gwXQRo

7 MARCH

Time Perception in Dance - essay for Methods
https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Karina/time_perception_in_dance

3 MARCH

Additional task for experiment

List a few songs that (personally) suit each given dance style
Find average BPM (beat per minute) for each song
Research what the average recommended BPM is per style
Compare my BPM range with recommended BPM range

BPM ranges were compared with the following sources:

Sheris Musings (Leblanc, 2011)
Beats Per Minute Online (Beatsperminuteonline.com. n.d.)
Hollywood Ballroom DC (Gross, 2012)

CHA CHA
Song	Artist	BPM
Cake by the Ocean	DNCE	119
Mercy	Duffy	130
El Chacal	Jose Conde	118
Mambo No. 5	Lou Bega	174
Smooth	Santana	116
My range		116 - 130
Range: Sheri Leblanc Musings		approximately 112 - 128
Range: beatsperminuteonline.com		120 - 128
Range: Hollywood Ballroom DC		112 - 128

ENGLISH WALTZ
Song	Artist	BPM
Moon River	Audrey Hepburn	92
La Javanaise	Madeleine Peyroux	108
Come Away With Me	Norah Jones	81
Nocturne	Secret Garden	80
My range		80 - 108
Range: Sheri Leblanc Musings		approximately 90 - 100
Range: beatsperminuteonline.com		84 - 90
Range: Hollywood Ballroom DC		84 - 93

FOXTROT
Song	Artist	BPM
Ain't That a Kick in the Head	Dean Martin	132
James Bond Theme		116
Dance Me to the End of Love	Madeleine Peyroux	137
Fever	Michael Buble	128
Orange Colored Sky	Nat King Cole	130
My range		116 - 137
Range: Sheri Leblanc Musings		approximately 120
Range: beatsperminuteonline.com		112 - 120
Range: Hollywood Ballroom DC		112 - 120

JIVE
Song	Artist	BPM
You Make My Dreams	Hall & Oates	167
Doin' It Right	Power Blues	165
My range		165 - 167
Range: Sheri Leblanc Musings		approximately 180
Range: beatsperminuteonline.com		168 - 184
Range: Hollywood Ballroom DC		152 - 176

PASO DOBLE
Song	Artist	BPM
Cielo Andaluz	?	112
El Gato Montes	?	116
El toro de tu sueno	?	120
My range		112 - 120
Range: Sheri Leblanc Musings		-
Range: beatsperminuteonline.com		120 - 124
Range: Hollywood Ballroom DC		112 - 124

QUICKSTEP
Song	Artist	BPM
Beatophone	Caravan Palace	252
Dramophone	Caravan Palace	252
Tangled Up	Caro Emerald	202
It Don't Mean A Thing	Geoff Love Orchestra	199
My range		199 - 252
Range: Sheri Leblanc Musings		approximately 200
Range: beatsperminuteonline.com		200 - 208
Range: Hollywood Ballroom DC		200 - 208

RUMBA
Song	Artist	BPM
Chan Chan	Buena Vista Social Club	81
Sway	Dean Martin	120
Girl From Ipanema	Joao Gilberto	128
Those Sweet Words	Norah Jones	103
My range		81 - 128
Range: Sheri Leblanc Musings		-
Range: beatsperminuteonline.com		100 - 108
Range: Hollywood Ballroom DC		96 - 112

SAMBA
Song	Artist	BPM
Bailar	Deorro ft. Elvis Crespo	128
Suavemente	Elvis Crespo	124
Lambada 3000	Kaoma, Gregor Salto	127
Tu Picadura	Dancelife	102
Dejarè La Puerta Abierta	Danilo	100
My range		100 - 128
Range: Sheri Leblanc Musings		-
Range: beatsperminuteonline.com		96 - 104
Range: Hollywood Ballroom DC		96 - 104

SWING / LINDY HOP
Song	Artist	BPM
My Baby Just Cares for Me	Nina Simone	118
Cheek to Cheek	Billie Holiday	145
Volare	Dean Martin	130
Ochi Chornya	Wingy Manone	165
Just a Gigolo	Louis Prima	124
E-Flat Boogie	Buster Smith	163
My range		118 - 165
Range: Sheri Leblanc Musings		approximately 140
Range: beatsperminuteonline.com		105 - 190
Range: Hollywood Ballroom DC		136 - 144

TANGO
Song	Artist	BPM
La Cumparsita	Carlos Di Sarli	116
Santa Maria	Gotan Project	118
Una Música Brutal	Gotan Project	107
El Tango De Roxanne	Jose Feliciano	108
My range		107 - 118
Range: Sheri Leblanc Musings		approximately 120
Range: beatsperminuteonline.com		80 - 160
Range: Hollywood Ballroom DC		120 - 132

VIENNESE WALTZ
Song	Artist	BPM
Waltz No. 2	Dmitri Shostakovich	187
3 Valses, Op. 64 No.2 In C Sharp Minor	Frederic Chopin	230
Love Ain't Gonna Let You Down	Jamie Cullum	130
The Blue Danube	Johann Strauss	183
Nutcracker	Tchaikovsky	208
Sleeping Beauty	Tchaikovsky	190
La Valse d'Amelie	Yann Tiersen	192
My range		130 - 230
Range: Sheri Leblanc Musings		approximately 190
Range: beatsperminuteonline.com		174 - 180
Range: Hollywood Ballroom DC		150 - 180

2 MARCH

Experiment

List all dance styles
Illustrate movement using choreology
Explain rhythm in words
Illustrate rhythm using choreology
Analyse differences between dances

1 MARCH

22 FEBRUARY

https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Joana%27s_Thesis_Outline

21 FEBRUARY

Direction and level of the movement
Part of the body doing the movement
Duration of the movement
Dynamic quality of the movement

Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker - dancer that draws dance with footprints
https://www.moma.org/calendar/performance/1580
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1OHl8_MPEg (Performance 13)

20 FEBRUARY

Experiment: Learning Swing Basics

How similar is it to what I already know from ballroom?
How similar is it to a Jive?
How long will I need to learn the first level?
Will I manage to remember the terminology?
Will I remember the dance once I get home?
Will I be able to fall into a flow? How long will it take?
What will be the experience / connection with a new dance parter?
Is Swing just as addictive as they say?

Task:

Find new dance style to try
Organise private classes with an instructor
Note down questions that arose before the class
Go to dance classes unprepared (didn’t look up steps, rhythm or what to wear)
Note down experience once the class is done

13 FEBRUARY

http://www.luckytv.nl/gaga-dazzles/

1 FEBRUARY

Experiment
What would happen if we broke down the structure / order of the dance?
How will that effect the flow?
How will our memory work?
Will we be more conscious of what we are doing?
Will I need to let my parter lead me more? More trust if less anticipation?

Task:

Select 6 steps from a Jive
List them in order using names / terminology and number them 1-6
Roll a die and note down the outcome
Repeat step 3 a couple of times
Rewrite steps in new order using step names / terminology
Dance the re-constructed Jive
Describe experience (use questions from above)

Jive first 6 steps

Basic Turn
Follow the Leader
American Swing
Bump
The ‘1-2’
Windmill + Spanish Arms

New order
3 - 1 - 6 - 2 - 4 - 2
American Swing
Basic Turn
Windmill + Spanish Arms
Follow the Leader
Bump
Follow the Leader

28 JANUARY

Some screenshots of my 'sketchbook'

23 JANUARY

In my previous years I created nicely printed and bound 'sketchbooks' during any project. Any research would get printed, stored in a chronological order in a folder, and by the end of the project get bound into a book. I'd like to show the process of the score project this way too. The content would be:

meeting notes
pushing the score sessions
experiments
own thoughts / analysis
own research and visuals

MID JANUARY?

https://www.ted.com/talks/camille_a_brown_a_visual_history_of_social_dance_in_25_moves#t-264680

{{#ev:youtube | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO6oPDwDzQs}}

Marian Wieczysty - Tańczyć może każdy (1986)

Slawomir Mrozek - Tango (1986) http://www.e-teatr.pl/pl/programy/2013_12/56364/tango_teatr_mickiewicza_czestochowa_1986.pdf

CYMATICS: Science Vs. Music - Nigel Stanford
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3oItpVa9fs

10 JANUARY

Dance

(idea: an occasion to nally lm all dance routines with Sean)
Can we dance certain routines to different music styles / counts? Waltz at a 4 (not 3) count. Join Swing Basics / Charleston Green classes
Read into notation systems for choreographers - what are they? will they be easy for me? can I read them without instructions?
(idea: note down dance instructions. differentiate right / left foot by colour - right=blue, left=red)
(idea: make rules to interpret score as a dance/choreography)
(idea: let dice decide next move in jive. American Spin=2, Spanish Arms=3, Windmill=4)
viewer could get involved by throwing dice, but performance cannot be archived / recreated
(idea: how could it be connected to twister? - chance dedicates colour / movement)
Some artist bought too many samples for the company to handle. This raises the question of whether the system needs upgrading. What questions does dance raise? Tango has storyline, Jive has African slave history (look into dance video)
Look into history of different dances
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it” - Alan Kay (1971)
How could we predict the future using dance?
Take possible news and correlate them to dice (chance) which is correlated to dance moves Take dance moves that are correlated to dice (chance) and correlate them with possible news
Michiel Schuurman - new form of harmony using glitch
Translating one type of content to another (python!) analog to digital
Look into Alan Kay

Language

Ask about artist (white record sleeve with black scattered letters on the wall) Find Letter from Santa
Play around with Google Translate and speaking in different languages
look into old project ideas: false auto correct in different languages?

9 JANUARY

Jessica Rylan
makes own electronic circuits (modular) to make instruments mandala-like etching in master on back of vinyl (idea: zoetrope)

when focusing on unexpected noises, you no longer hear the background rhythm (idea: representing falling into a trance)

Eric Newton
(idea: close eyes, imagine storyline - exercises for kids)  train or kettle? (idea: het geluid)  

John Perry
Man saying (football?) scores 104212121110 (idea: Japaanse Puzzle)

Unknown artist, can’t trace woman back
Drunk man tries to explain something gibberish about thunderstorms and a plane lled with clay - is it acted? soundtracks added in the background for sound effects (idea: how many times do people say ‘like’ when they talk?) (idea: take audio from video of Tim doing math in McDonalds when drunk)

Michael ...
recordings of Biranja language of Indian’s that travelled to Suriname to work (1988) songs told stories of homeland but also about moral issues / life Songs were later translated (text). This language was chosen because it is dying, due to migration / fusion with Surinamese (idea: how can language shape culture?) (idea: force google translate speak text from one language written phonetically in another - Message from Santa)
(idea: look into Polish language surviving thanks to sung / spoken prose / poetry - check artists that parents listened to) (idea: why / how does rhythm force us to move? Gaudi’s work forced people to interact with it - staircase) (idea: look into experience of Sri Lankan youth playing drums and singing in train from Ella to Kandy. First traditional, later interacted with tourists and played commonly known melodies - Justin Bieber)

Records came in different sizes 3” records used for Spreekpoppen (speaking dolls from East Germany)  They could say ‘hello’ (idea: or they could sound demonic)

8” Transparent square record in perspex demonic sounds layered on drum rhythms and random sounds (Michael joked about Shazaming it) (idea: everything is a remix. what if you shazam songs that play only music, without the lyrics that make it clear it’s a remix. How many versions can it nd? example of dad learning to use shazam)

Leif Lewin
sound reproduction 2 moulds and poured in liquid to create record Image / etching of Jesus face is still carved in a spiral Original Jesus face was carved in 1649 Track is the recording of touching the copper plate of the face  (idea: look into photo of female body covered with Brail)

Language and sounds William Burroughs look into DADA sound look into white cover with scattered letters (on the wall) (idea: Tim trying to speak Polish by glueing continents / sounds together

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